Good morning all,
I’m grateful for a quiet start to my day. I’m also grateful there are no big plans for this weekend. I’m grateful for our home and the people and animals in it. I’m grateful for recovery podcasts, and TS. Everyone have a wonderful day❤️
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- Grateful sober hangover free mornings never ever get old.
- Grateful I started my morning on TS writing to a friend
- I’m grateful for all the very different unique friendships I’ve made here on TS in almost 3 years. You guys are worth it and are a key to my sobriety.
- I’m grateful my car also decided to die at home in my garage yesterday.
- Grateful we made it home the night before instead of getting stuck out in the cold.
- Grateful after a few hours on the phone figuring out what to do, it was just a dead battery and we were able to jump start it in the garage “ourselves
” and get it to the dealership and we should get it back this morning. - Grateful my wife and I made a great team getting that taken care of. A dead battery may not sound like much to some. But my wife and I had a great big laugh when neither one of us could figure out how to open the hood (bonnet for my English speaking friends
) of her car. As she dug out the manual 
we know fuck all about cars
- I’m grateful we both laughed so hard about the whole thing.
- I’m grateful my daughter-in-law loved The few vintage Christmas ornaments I found for them on line to get them going on their first family, baby’s first, Christmas tree. They basically have nothing to hang on their tree and plan to accumulate special things over the years as their family grows.
- I’m grateful for all of “Baby’s First.” Especially baby’s first Christmas Santa Snow Globe her Grandparents gave her for Christmas.
- Going with 11 today. I’m grateful for The feeling my wife and I have for “Baby’s First,” Christmas and it has been the best Christmas ever. It’s the feelings that matter
. That’s what this Christmas stuff is all about 
We are truly blessed to be alone during the Holidays and have loving, healthy, happy families from afar. And all our furr babies that we never leave for The Holidays.
If I learn to see everything with a fresh eye, I will find I have many reasons for contentment and gratitude. When I find myself being bogged down with negative thoughts, I will deliberately turn away from them.
Today’s reminder
ODAAT in Al-Anon.
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Good morning! I’m grateful this morning I realize I need a new phone because it gets longer and longer between my gratitudes and I’m feeling a decline in my gratitude. I am so grateful to be waking up to my kids for the third weekend in a row. I’m grateful that my kids will be with me at my house for Christmas. I’m grateful for all the miracles that are happening. I’m grateful for the struggles too, for they make everything even more worthwhile. I’m so grateful to finally be graduating IOP next week. I have very much missed sleep. I’m grateful I’m so very close to gettibg my license back. I’m grateful that so much of the damage created by addiction is reversible with hard work.
I’m grateful that I still feel pretty unsatisfied with my life because it just keeps me pushing for more. I’m grateful, however, for this moment in which I can see just how far I’ve truly come since this time last year when I was not clean yet. What a difference 8 3/4 months can make.
I’m grateful that an olive branch has been extended to my sister, I’m grateful that I understand I can only control my actions, I cannot control hers, but Im grateful for my actions, all the same.
I hope you’re all enjoying this season. There’s so much to do and see with sober eyes.
Much love to you all.
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Today I’m grateful my high emotions and nightmares will pass soon. F@$#cking menopausal hormons 
, I want to be done, finito, basta with this bleeding. The last months were so comfortable and quiet without. I’m grateful I know that my endless appetite, the anxiety, the crying, the feeling needy and craving for being loved were PMS bullshit. After today’s nightmares I even had a breakdown with an episode of suicidal thoughts. Went to the bathroom, discovered the arrival of bloody aunti and wanted to kill everything below my breasts 
I’m grateful for pain medication. I’m grateful for a visit at a friend, we had a good talk and laughed a lot. I’m grateful I drove home safely allthough the weather was bad. I’m always nervous when driving under bad weather conditions. I’m happy to be home again and proud that I a) did not cancel the appointment and b) I overcame my anxiety to drive in bad weather. It turned out everything went fine and I’m very grateful for it.
I’m happy Schimanski runs to the door when someone is approaching! Never seen that before. Now I have a watchcat instead of a watchdog 
I’m grateful for my cats, they are pure love.
I’m tired and I’m grateful that my cozy bed is waiting for me to cuddle into pillows and blankets. With cats. Missing my husband.
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I too have missed sharing my gratitude over the last few days, I can tell. I also open the app many times a day to read, like and add to my journal. I too am 8 and 3/4 months sober. I’m so grateful for my life these days.
I’ve just watched a documentary about AA on the BBC, I’m grateful for where I am in my recovery. I’m grateful for all the ways to access support.
I’m grateful to read everyone’s shares 
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I’m grateful for the socked-in kind of day it is. For the long sleep - I needed it. For the frost coating every tree, shrub, and even the tall grasses outside my window. I’m grateful I might not leave the house today (I know this is how the calf was fattened, but a day or two here and there can’t hurt!) - it will be sunset at 3:45pm, after all. 
I’m reflecting on this time last year. To whoever broke into my basement storage unit? I still think about you…
You could see my car booster pack/jump starter, and I think it called to you first - worth a couple hundred bucks and still in the box. (And I hadn’t used it once. It came with more cautions than a viagra commercial, so the few times my old putt-putt needed a boost I called motor vehicles or a friend.) No real loss, but I felt so intruded on and looked to see what else was missing…
Because it was only a few weeks before Christmas, I had some Christmas things handy too. A large Christmas gift bag with wrap in it, and those gifts you get where, if you’re minimalist me, you (confession) re-gift: ho-ho-ho mugs, socks with reindeer, etc. Things from well-meaning co-workers and neighbours who don’t really know me. You took that bag. You needed gifts to give. It softened me to you.
I could see you went through my bag of old clothes and as you took nothing, I think you must be male. You took nothing else.
I reported the incident to my condo managers as I’m supposed to, who filed it with the cops but obviously petty theft isn’t high on anyone’s list of unsolved cases. One of the staff with the condo management association said there was a halfway house nearby - you know, for alcoholics - and that it was probably someone from there. I had, about a month earlier, set down 16 months of sobriety and picked up a wine glass, and one month in - I was struggling to moderate. I wanted to punch her for not understanding us. That is, if you’re even an alcoholic. But I didn’t say anything.
A few days later I realized the backpack was missing. The one that used to be my Dad’s. He had died about 3 and half years ago, at that point. I thought I would use the day pack, and I tried to, but a heavy combination lock was looped to one side and Dad had taken the code with him. It still makes me laugh. You took that too, and I’m grateful to you for it. I’ve had a year to come to terms with needing to let go of some other things of Dad’s (in different, more secure storage). They need to be used, after all, and I am not a packrat, never have been. I wish I could give you first dibs on those things.
To whoever broke into my storage unit last year? I hope you are doing better this year.
I’m grateful for the roof over my head. That I have more than enough. That I have never had to steal. That I get to recover - 5 months 3 days today.
I’m grateful for another day.
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Hello,
today I am grateful for being clean, for getting up motivated to live life.
today I am grateful for the love of my family and my higher power.
Today I am grateful for having the confidence and showing myself, taking on challenges in my work,
today I am grateful for having a plate on the table, for having a job in difficult times,
today I am grateful for continuing to learn. to stay clean,
today I am thankful for feeling like a winner. I love today’s reflection December 10, Narcotics Anonymous Book Winners: Just for Today.
Just for today I feel serenity and calm in my head thanks to not using.
Good night
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Evening gratitude…
I am grateful to have woken up this morning with my partner and when I said, “which affirmations would you like to start the day with?” he didn’t have a clue, " I don’t do them, teach me." he said. I am grateful that he has enough humility and is still teachable to learn something from me. I am grateful to have started this day with gratitude affirmations, grateful for the heat I felt them create in my core and for the smile I walked through my day with.
I am grateful to have seen the full spectrum of addiction tonight within 15 mins. From the addict in active addiction, a hunched-over Zombie swaying between the tables of McDonald’s with fentanyl coursing through his veins; to the two NA members who took cakes tonight in a room full of clean addicts in recovery. I am grateful for the 29 years and 33 years of clean time those two men have. I am grateful that they still come to meetings, sponsor men, do service work, and continue to show us newcomers that the program will work if you do the fucking work. I am grateful for the synchronicities tonight, the gentleman who took 33 years, cleaned up when he was 33 years old and there were 33 people in the room tonight.
I am grateful that things like that fill my soul.
I am grateful for the universe, and for the program of Narcotics Anonymous.
I am hopeful that the still-suffering addicts will one day find the strength to choose themselves.
I am hopeful that one day the still-suffering addicts will see that they don’t have to do this alone.
I am grateful that I don’t ever have to be alone again.
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I am grateful to be sober.
I am grateful for the nice day yesterday with friends.
I am grateful my laptop is back to life. Now with win11. Didn’t even know of this version. I hope my laptop can handle it.
I am grateful I could say out loud that I hate asking for help so often. My friends couldn’t understand. Maybe in a couple you don’t count asking you partner for help as such. For me it was an overwhelming feeling in the last weeks to overcome. To: fuuuuuuck, I have to ask again for help because I don’t know how or cannot do it all alone.
I am grateful for a new blanket. I tried a weighing blanket. Let’s see if it really improves my sleep. I already slept until 6 am 
I am grateful I don’t drink. I was thinking that being happy on a Saturday afternoon on a Christmas market is only possible for longer than 15 min if you already have considerable amounts of Glühwein in your system. For me there is no other explanation possible.
I am grateful I have enough.
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Haha Franzi, I love it when you swear. 
Grateful for your gartitude to go to sleep with. Nini. xxx
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Today im grateful for the opportunities God has placed in front of me.
And grateful for the path ive found for myself.
And ofcourse, for another day on this beautiful planet. 
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I am struggling a bit with gratitude this morning, but I’ll give it a go anyway. Once I start, there is usually more an more things coming to mind. Here we go.
I am grateful for the beautity of snowflakes - it’s such a magical moment, when they just materialize out of nowhere and come dancing down from a wintery grey sky.
I am grateful for my two best friends, whom I have known since kindergarden. They have been around through it all and I am grateful we can be chroniclers to each others paths in life and laugh about it. I am truly grateful this friendship survived the years of anger, isolation and drinking.
I am grateful I get to bake some christmas cookies today with my friends children. Its something we do every year and I just love getting all crazy about decorating the them. Its colourfulness, we are aiming for, not t prettiness.
I am grateful that alcohol doesn’t play a role there at all. It used to be mulled wine, while we were handling the cookies, but ever since I quit drinking, my friend just silently switched to christmas tea and childrens punch.
Last but not least - I am grateful I haven’t gotten tired of christmas songs yet. Have a great sober sunday, gratidudes.
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Really happy you found your way back here, friend.
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I’m grateful to wake up sober! Grateful to have energy, not feel shitty, and pumped to go spend time with my friends!
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Good morning sober fam,
Ive been slacking on gratitude again and my meh mentality is exhausting. I hope it will improve
Im greatful feelings are temporary and fluid
Im greatful for my sobriety, 224 days free
My hubby taking me to bed after i fell asleep on the couch last night
Boscoe and his love
Walks with my sober sister
The ability to read and comprehend
Coffee
The sun and the moon and the stars
Progress not perfection
Everyone here sharing their sobriety journies
Light and love to you all
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Today I’m grateful for early morning solitude.
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Im grateful Alice only weighs 8 pounds since she likes to sleep on my neck when I go to bed.
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Im grateful she doesn’t over stay her visit.
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I’m grateful for all the extremely sensitive cat sensations I feel as she is purring right in my ear and her whiskers are lovingly annoying my checks and her furr is almost in my mouth, again lovingly annoying. Yet I feel so blessed and so content and mostly relaxed.
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I’m grateful I haven’t needed any ice on my back in the morning for the past week or so or 3.
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I’m grateful the car dealer fucked us over yesterday and we couldn’t go to the movie I really wanted to see and dinner. I happily got all my Christmas shopping done on line. We picked the car up later had an early dinner out and watched a movie at home. It was a great night.
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I’m grateful I enjoyed Robert Duval so much in The Apostle, by myself, even though I didn’t really care for that type of movie.
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I’m grateful for the thoughts I had last night watching The Apostle because of @Rockstar24777
(You ok Robbie? I feel like you been missing lately)
Anyway…… my grateful wild imagination last night was, suppose all us Christians were brainwashed to believe in a God of our understanding instead of Jesus. Now, I got nothing against Jesus. You all know that. But this movie just showed how the brainwashing begins at such a young age. Grateful to watch it with an open mind and it made me really think
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I’m grateful the Bills and Jets will be on my local television station here. Go Bills!
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I’m grateful my wife just ask me how I’m doing this morning and I said headachy and sad. I got a big groan. Not my problem. I’m only responsible for my feelings. I’m happy to feel sadness instead of resentment and to tell the truth.
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I’m grateful For Al-Anon and getting to the point where I feel she really cannot help it. And I can’t do a fucking thing about it. Well that’s not true. I can be grateful for the time we do have together through most of the day. And I enjoyed the hell out of that movie by myself instead of playing the poor me game. Fucking progress! Am I right?
Whatever we give energy to we empower.
There is magic in empowering the good, because whatever we empower grows bigger.
The Language Of Letting Go
Melody Beattie
December 11
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That movie sounds intriguing! Years back, I heard someone say in answer to the question “What religion do you believe in?”…“All of them”. I liked that. I mean, maybe not the snake dancing or animal killing ones, but to each his own. Thanks for your share this morning, Eric!
And “Fucking progress! Am I right? ”
Yes, my friend, you are right
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I’m grateful you like my share.
I love Robert Duvall. I got a list of his ten best.
This was his own passion project, writer, director, producer and star. I really got tired of some of it. But he is such an incredible actor and did an incredible job here I couldn’t stop watching it.
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Today I’m grateful for doing chores. For cooking lunch. For cuddling cats. For destracting myself from the needy feeling of missing my husband and my mom and feeling lonely. It didn’t help but at least I tried.
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